They likely pulled the pacemaker because it would of kept her alive and in misery.
I've seen two people go under the knife at different hospitals recently, have fever for days after and get treated with antibiotics without a blood culture ever being done. Treating someone like that without knowing which antibiotic would be effective and treating it like a simple throat infection is just retarded.
Now her bleeding is another thing entirely but it just reminds me of how incompetent some hospitals can be.
If you're fresh post op you don't play the guessing game hoping you get it right because if you don't and after a few days sepsis sets in you're in a world of fucked. In many cases it could of been avoided by substituting the weak ass generic antibiotics for a big gun like vanco once the culture came back. Would of saved one of our friends 4 weeks of hell but fortunately she lived regardless.
Where my wife works it's standard procedure. They even draw urine at cath time so they know if there is an infection there before or after the cath (this way you know if they had it prior to the cath or post) plus the blood work. Anyway, always nice to know what you're trying to kill because not all antibiotics work on everything and playing the guessing game on post op patients can be deadly and trying to run the culture after you've given 2 or 3 days of antibiotics isn't the right way to do it.
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Wife actually got a transfer from one of the hospitals. Infant who they thought was in SVT because his heart rate was pushing 200. He had a fever and was pissed off. That would be considered a normal heart rate in those conditions. So they pushed Adenosine, crashed his heart rate, panicked and shipped him via trauma hawk to people that knew wtf they were doing. When he got there his heart rate was in the 60's IIRC. Bring your kid to the ER because he has a fever and they almost kill him.
Sad really.
I've seen two people go under the knife at different hospitals recently, have fever for days after and get treated with antibiotics without a blood culture ever being done. Treating someone like that without knowing which antibiotic would be effective and treating it like a simple throat infection is just retarded.
Now her bleeding is another thing entirely but it just reminds me of how incompetent some hospitals can be.
If you're fresh post op you don't play the guessing game hoping you get it right because if you don't and after a few days sepsis sets in you're in a world of fucked. In many cases it could of been avoided by substituting the weak ass generic antibiotics for a big gun like vanco once the culture came back. Would of saved one of our friends 4 weeks of hell but fortunately she lived regardless.
Where my wife works it's standard procedure. They even draw urine at cath time so they know if there is an infection there before or after the cath (this way you know if they had it prior to the cath or post) plus the blood work. Anyway, always nice to know what you're trying to kill because not all antibiotics work on everything and playing the guessing game on post op patients can be deadly and trying to run the culture after you've given 2 or 3 days of antibiotics isn't the right way to do it.
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Wife actually got a transfer from one of the hospitals. Infant who they thought was in SVT because his heart rate was pushing 200. He had a fever and was pissed off. That would be considered a normal heart rate in those conditions. So they pushed Adenosine, crashed his heart rate, panicked and shipped him via trauma hawk to people that knew wtf they were doing. When he got there his heart rate was in the 60's IIRC. Bring your kid to the ER because he has a fever and they almost kill him.
Sad really.
